Jose Padua’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Bomb, Salon, Exquisite Corpse, Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (NYU Press, 2006), Crimes of the Beats (Autonomedia Publishing, 1999), and many other journals and anthologies. He has also written features and reviews for NY Press, Washington City Paper, and The New York Times. He was a member of the 1995 DC Slam Team and has read his work at the Lollapalooza Festival, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, and the Washington Project for the Arts.